THALIAN HALL SPECIAL EVENT

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

October 28-30

4:00pm & 7:00pm

Get spooky this Halloween at Historic Thalian Hall with our 4th annual screenings of George A. Romero’s iconic 1968 film, Night of the Living Dead. Come early in your most ghoulish costume for a chance to win tickets to the Cinematique Film Series, trick or treating, and a signature cocktail. 

Shot outside Pittsburgh on a shoestring budget, by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, Night of the Living Dead, directed by horror master George A. Romero, is a great story of independent cinema: a midnight hit turned box-office smash that became one of the most influential films of all time. A deceptively simple tale of a group of strangers trapped in a farmhouse who find themselves fending off a horde of recently dead, flesh-eating ghouls, Romero’s claustrophobic vision of a late-1960s America literally tearing itself apart rewrote the rules of the horror genre, combining gruesome gore with acute social commentary and quietly breaking ground by casting a Black actor (Duane Jones) in its lead role.